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The olympic games opening ceremonies tonight from the comfort of his home. >> nbcs rehema ellis covering bill clintons situation in new york. rehema, thanks for the report. a republican candidate for a governor in texas is now under fire for seeming to suggest that the u.s. government had something to do with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. debra maddena was asked if she believed the government played a role in the attacks. she said, quote, i think good questions were raised in that regard. i thin...

Have read his miranda rights, should he have not been read his miranda rights? what do you, as a former prosecutor, say? >> i do not think he should have been read his rights. the most important thing is to find what information he has in order to prevent future terrorist attacks. after the questioning is finished, then the attorney general can make a decision whether to try him in a civil court or in a military commission. whatever statements he makes would be inadmissible in a civil court if t...

But the most important thing is to get whatever information he has to prevent future terrorist attacks. more important than his conviction. >> youre basically saying that when john brennan briefed the republican leaders, republican and democratic leaders on christmas night and told him he was being held in fbi custody that they should not have automatically assumed that he was being mirandizing, as the white house is suggesting number one, and, number two, did he not have to be mirandized within...

Increased following the christmas day bomber attack. our drew griffin reports there are real problems within agency. >> what we are hearing from this agency of police officers in the sky is that it is so dysfunctional the management is so bad that its actually getting in the way of the mission which is to protect us. the federal air marshals mission, protect americas commercial aircraft from future terrorist attacks. with a nearly $1 billion budget, how many attempted terrorist attacks have the ...

Should probably also stop when it is about national security matters and alleged terrorist attacks. the white house states that the congress was informed on tuesday in a hearing that he was talking so they werent disclosing anything that wasnt already none and wasnt already public information. i think this whole thing has been unfortunate. susan colins said they offered him a plea bargain and the white house said no, that is not true at all. the white house is trying to defend itself against an ...

Cooperation. during the following day, it came out that it was starting to flow from mr. mutallab. the press was all over it. this network went out and provided that. we wanted to make sure we were able to provide to the networks and the media the correct rendition of what happened and how instrumental abduls family was in getting him to cooperate. it was a successful activity on the part of the department justice and the intelligence community. what we did was make sure the facts were out there...

To stop at the waters edge it should probably also stop when it is about national security matters and alleged terrorist attacks. the white house states that the congress was informed on tuesday in a hearing that he was talking so they werent disclosing anything that wasnt already none and wasnt already public information. i think this whole thing has been unfortunate. susan colins said they offered him a plea bargain and the white house said no, that is not true at all. the white house is tryin...

Should probably also stop when it is about national security matters and alleged terrorist attacks. the white house states that the congress was informed on tuesday in a hearing that he was talking so they werent disclosing anything that wasnt already none and wasnt already public information. i think this whole thing has been unfortunate. susan colins said they offered him a plea bargain and the white house said no, that is not true at all. the white house is trying to defend itself against an ...

Extremists is that they dont often fit any profile. they dont look like what we think an al qaeda member is going to look like, they dont look like what a terrorist is going to look like. some of these guys may be poorly armed, poorly coordinated, but, you know, the point is theyre looking to make a statement. even if whatever they do doesnt succeed, if they get it in front of the cameras, if they make an international incident they have succeeded the same way omar abdulmutallab succeeded in the...

Not going to compromise our ability to follow up on that information and to disrupt further terrorist attacks, and there have been instances when information has been shared with the hill, when we see it in the media the next day, and we have to be circumspect as far as what information is going to be shared. the premium this president puts on the work of the intelligence and law enforcement community is to disresult future attacks -- jo when you brief some republicans about how he was going to ...